May 14th 2009
A Wide Range Of (Liberal) Candidates
The headline on the Reuters SCOTUS pick update story might imply that President Obama is actually open to different judicial philosophies – or even appointing a white guy – as he ponders his pick to replace Justice Souter: Obama Weighs Wide Range of Candidates for Court. But this is “wide range” in the liberal sense of the phrase.
We learn from the article that Obama is looking at a number of women and possible a Hispanic man as he searches for someone “empathetic” for the court. The names mentioned are all big government liberals who can be counted on to be, at best, sloppy constitutionalists: Solicitor General Elena Kagan, U.S. appeals court judges, Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Wood, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno.
True to form and precedent, Obama also invited a couple of Republicans, Mitch McConnell and Jess Sessions, in so he could pretend to listen to their thoughts about the nominee, and to warn them to stand back, there was an appointment steamroller warming up.
McConnell left the meeting unimpressed:
I thought empathy implied you were on somebody’s side before you heard the case.
Oh, please, Mitch. Don’t let little things like that get in the way of the Obamafication of the Court.
As Obama checks out the gals, he might want to check in with us. According to Gallup, two-thirds of us don’t think the selection should be made based on gender, and three-quarters of us don’t think it should be made based on race. We curry to that old-fashioned belief that excellence in the law should be the only criteria – shame on us for being so illiberal!
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